ECDC Technical Report, Fourth Update 3 July 2020
Lignes directrices provisoires, 13 août 2020
L’OMS a établi cette brève note d’information pour répondre au besoin de recommandations sur la prestation sûre de soins à domicile aux patients présumés atteints de l’infection par le nouveau coronavirus (2019-nCoV) présentant des symptô...mes bénins, et sur les mesures de santé publique liées à la prise en charge des contacts asymptomatiques.
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Physical and social distancing measures are associated with limiting contact between people during disease outbreaks. These measures when applied are often enhanced by lockdowns or shutdowns as part of broader risk communication and community engagement strategies to halt the transmission of disease... outbreaks.
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The report – Global Status Report on Preventing Violence Against Children 2020 – is the first of its kind, charting progress in 155 countries against the “INSPIRE” framework, a set of seven strategies for preventing and responding to violence against children. The report signals a clear need... in all countries to scale up efforts to implement them. While nearly all countries (88%) have key laws in place to protect children against violence, less than half of countries (47%) said these were being strongly enforced.
The report includes the first ever global homicide estimates specifically for children under 18 years of age – previous estimates were based on data that included 18 to 19-year olds. It finds that, in 2017, around 40,000 children were victims of homicide.
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Over the past weeks, there has been wide media attention on the risk of transmission of the novel coronavirus [severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2)] by asymptomatic individuals. This situation has also been extensively discussed on various platforms globally. The purpose of t...his position statement is for the Africa Centres for Diseases Control and Prevention (Africa CDC) to clarify the situation of transmission of SARS-CoV-2 by pre-asymptomatic and asymptomatic Individuals.
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Yemeni people continue to show incredible resilience after five years of conflict, recurrent flooding, constant threats of famine and cholera, extreme hardship to access basic services like education or health and dwindling livelihoods opportunities– and now, COVID-19. Nearly four million people h...ave now been displaced throughout the country and have thus lost their home.
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N95 or equivalent respirators are single-use personal protective equipment (PPE) designed for use by health workers that provide direct care to patients with diseases transmitted by aerosols or during aerosol generating procedures (AGP) for patients with acute respiratory disease, as is the case of ...COVID-19. • Given the current shortage of N95 and equivalent respirators, the World Health Organization (WHO) has suggested the possibility of their extended use by the same individual for up to 6 hours or the reprocessing of respirators when necessary.
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The UNAIDS 2020 global report is a call to action. It highlights the scale of the HIV epidemic and how it runs along the fault lines of inequalities.
This document provides guidance to Member States in the WHO European Region that wish to conduct behavioural insights studies related to COVID-19. Studies can be used to monitor public knowledge, risk perceptions, behaviours and trust with the overall aim to inform national COVID-19 outbreak respons...e measures, including policies, interventions and communications.
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Nas últimas semanas, tem havido uma ampla atenção dos meios de comunicação social sobre o risco de transmissão do novo coronavírus [síndrome respiratório agudo grave coronavírus 2 (SRA-CoV-2)] por indivíduos assintomáticos. Esta situação também tem sido amplamente discutida em várias... plataformas a nível mundial. O objectivo desta declaração de posição é que os Centros Africanos de Controlo e Prevenção de Doenças (Africa CDC) esclareçam a situação de transmissão do SRA-CoV-2 por indivíduos pré-asintomáticos e assintomáticos.
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Die vorliegende Publikation ist auf Grundlage der jahrelangen fachlichen Expertise und Praxiserfahrungen des Paritätischen und seiner Mitgliedsorganisationen sowie der Perspektiven und Rückmeldungen geflüchteter Fraün entstanden. Ausgehend von einem Überblick über die Lebensbedingungen und akt...uellen Herausforderungen im Aufnahme- und Integrationsprozess in Deutschland, zeigt sie konkrete Bedarfe geflüchteter Fraün auf und stellt diesbezüglich gelungene Praxisansätze aus der Unterstützungsarbeit mit geflüchteten Fraün vor.
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Erfahrungen im Umgang mit COVID-19-Erkrankten–Hinweise von Klinikern für Kliniker –
Guidance for General Medical and Specialised Mental Health Care Settings
June 2020In die Skriflig/In Luce Verbi 54(1)
DOI: 10.4102/ids.v54i1.2562
This document outlines why and how nurses and midwives are important, not only for individual health optimization but also to achieve the thematic priorities of For the Future. More specifically, it provides case studies to showcase the amazing work that nurses and midwives across the Region are doi...ng to improve health. The document also provides future policy directions to strengthen the scope and leadership of the nursing and midwifery workforce, alongside actions to accelerate investment in their education, skills and employment.
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The State of the world’s nursing 2020 report provides the latest, most up-to-date evidence on and policy options for the global nursing workforce.
Infection control is the forth edition from Clinical Pocket Reference for Nurses.
This clinical pocket book - Respiratory Assessment and Oxygen Administration - is the forth edition from Clinical Pocket Reference for Nurses